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General Introduction:  

Organization Background:

Disable Empowerment Center (Apanga Sasaktikaran Kendra- in Nepali) Surkhet a Non-Governmental Organization founded in 2004 and run in accordance with the law of Nepal, based at Surkhet. The organization is dedicated to the welfare of the people with disabilities and its objectives are to train and provide opportunities, facilitate self-generating employment skills and enrich with economic opportunities.

Vision:

We want to see our society happy and healthy, equality, free from any kind of discrimination and full respect of human rights.

Mission:

• To ensure the utilization of basic rights of people with
• To ensure the full implementation of the commitment of united

Nation’s convention on the rights of people with disability (UNCRPD) and national laws and policies.

Objectives:

• To collect the data of people with disability of the district and karnali
• To ensure the opportunities on education and vocational training based on individual capacity
• To reduce the discrimination among people with disabilities by providing livelihood opportunities and vocational
• To work as pressure group for the protection of the rights of people with disabilities and to benefit of
• To improve the positive attitude toward people with disabilities through the awareness campaign
• To provide special education including all types of disabilities.
• To ensure the access of people with disabilities on basic needs; health, education, water and sanitation.

Principles:

• Work against the discrimination based on the race, religion and individual
• Ensure do no harm by our behaviors and
• Cooperation and collaboration for the rights of people with
• Be motivate and do motivate people
• Keep people with disabilities at the
• Innovation and creativity for the rights of people with

Sectors/Area of work:

We work for the people with disabilities to ensure equitable access to health, education and livelihood. We also work for the environmental protection and disaster management.

• Organizational Development
• Rehabilitation rights
• Disability Inclusive Development
• Research and evidence generation
• Inclusive livelihood
• Networking and Coordination
• Awareness raisin

Target group:

• People with disabilities

Geographical area of Operation:

• Karnali province

Partnership with:

• Government
• World education
• Handicap International,
• DDP - UK

Organizational Management:

DEC Surkhet has clear vision for organizational management. The roles and responsibility of each section has been clearly defined. General Assembly is the higher authority of the organization and held on every 2 years to elect the executive body. The executive committee is a governing body of an organization and it leads and guides the organization, monitoring project activities and ensures the quality and better implementation project in the field. In addition, the committee develops policies, guidelines and protocol as per the needs.To manage project effectively, sub committees; Procurement, Recruitment, M&E, etc., forms as per the need. To ensure the transparency, every year DEC conduct, social audit and stakeholder sharing meeting.

Finance/Account/Audit

DEC surest collects resources from membership fees, late fee, other service fee, as well as overhead & management expenses provided by the donor agencies. The collected fund is mobilized for the Capacity development of the members and staffs of the organization. All the transactions are made by cheque from bank. The expenses bill voucher and receipt will be submitted to the subjective sub- committee and endorsement to the executive committee. The executive committee checks whether the expenses are real or not and approved. Account has been managed in the standard format of accountancy of Nepal government. Different formats have been developed to manage the account properly. Internal audit has been made twice a year and external audit once year by CA or registered auditor recruited by the general assembly of the organization.

Audit report and annual progress report is submitted to concerning support/donor agency, social welfare council and other stakeholders.

Resource collection:

The necessary resources for the better implementation of program are collect from following sources:

• Membership and renew fee
• Service fee
• Support from government and INGO/NGOs
• Support from private and personal

Strength of DEC, Surkhet:

• Close co-ordination with stakeholders at local, district and national
• Work experience in the field of disability, disability rights, human rights, Education, Reproductive health and physical rehabilitation and
• Accessibility audit and universal design
• Expertise on disability inclusive development and GEDSI
• Ensuring quality and integrity of implementation, including adherence to technical guidelines, administrative systems, and establishment in health, livelihood and education
• Identifying and addressing staff capacity building opportunities

Organization’s Policies: